Who here runs a 64bit OS?

[heymrdj]

I run Vista 64 very happily. Only issue is that VMWare Server won't be signed on the 64 bit platform till Windows Server 2008 is released. Therefore anytime I wanna run server I have to use F8 at boot and boot without driver signing.

 

[DarkThinker]

I will be running Fedora 7 64-bit on my Thinkpad T60, as soon as I upgrade the CPU to core 2 duo 2.0 GHZ 4MB cache merom, I just can't find any good deals on that one, in addition to that I don't really need that upgrade... I just want it 😛

 

[Skypix7]

I'm having a hell of a time getting vista 64 to recognize my 8GB ram on my brand new system, which was burned in at allpczone for 72 hours but came without the OS, which I installed.

It only shows 3.12GB ram. When I enable mem mapping in bios, screwed up vista stability totally, although it did show 8GB of ram...but things like notepad wouldn't even close, or open files, wierd stuff. Shockingly fast though. I disabled the mem mapping, it went back to 3.12GB.

I've seen suggestions in the forum for updating to the two latest MS patches:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979/en-us

and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194/en-us

also saw a suggestion to do an arcane rollback to pre 1669 bios for the intel chipset...

does anybody have input on whether these might be the problem?

rig: asus P5W DH Deluxe, 8gb Kingston 2gb x 4, geforce 7600 gs w/512, 600 watt PS, Quad 6600 running at 29C, everything seems nominal only it doesn't find the rest of the ram and boot up takes 4 or more minutes!

Any other ideas? I'm loath to rollback bios until I've installed the patches, which I'm doing first.

Also, my card doesn't recognize my second monitor...says there's no connection, though everything was fine...the 7600 video card has one DVI and one analog, the analog one isn't showing the monitor.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Vista Ultimate x86 / Vista Business x64 dual boot on primary PC.

Kids' PC is all 32-bit, dual boots XP Pro and Vista Business.

Work is all 32-bit, given no 64-bit support for some proprietary apps that we have no control over (other than replacing entire mission critical applications across the board).

I run the one 64-bit install just for testing purposes and to play around with it. I have a side computer business and need to be able to support 64-bit OS's in the future. Also, I recently upgraded to 4GB of RAM on the box, and it would be a crime to not be able to use all of it at least some of the time 😉

So far, I'm very pleased with it. All the drivers I needed were available, my apps, even some older ones, seem to be working just fine, and the system actually seems a bit faster than it's 32-bit counterpart. My only complaint is no flash support for IE 64-bit, but that's easily remedied.